Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American had some special reasons for hating it. He was the most comfort-loving creature who had ever walked the earth- and he much preferred riding to walking. As well as comfort, he loved and expected order; he yearned, like other men, for a predictable world, and the fantastic fog and gamble of war struck him as a terrifying affront...
...Fog of Battle. The Senator was the aggressor. He announced at once that he was going to blast Pearson's hide off with a Senate speech the very next day, and he kept jumping up during dinner to repeat the announcement. Finally Pearson asked him how his Wisconsin income-tax case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom...
...pilot needs to maneuver violently, he merely "overrides" the autopilot. When the crisis is past, the autopilot takes charge again. It will also "couple" to radio signals and bring the jet down safely to a fog-covered field...
...this point, a trade-paper correspondent asked DiSalle to say firmly if there could be a price freeze by Sunday. "At is time no order is being drafted . . ." replied DiSalle, trying to be helpful. Valentine broke in to fog things up again: of course, we can't tell what will happen between now and Sunday. There have been so many unexpected developments recently...
...scent of grease paint proves much stronger than the smell of cordite. All the fog of war cannot hide the writing and acting shortcomings in the characters of the picture's command-weary captain (David Brian) and his young platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle...